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Notes and Gleaninzs. 



and curved in the form of the Large Winter Crookneck. The seeds are con- 

 tained at the blossom-end, which expands somewhat abruptly, and is often slight- 

 ly ribbed ; skin of moderate thickness, and easily pierced by the nail ; color, 



when fully ripened, cream-yellow, but, if long kept, becoming duller and darker ; 

 flesh salmon-red, very close-grained, dry, sweet, and fine-flavored ; seeds com- 

 paratively small, of a grayish or dull white color, with a rough and uneven yel- 

 lowish-brown border. Three hundred are contained in an ounce. 



The Canada is unquestionably the best of the crooknecked sorts. The vines 

 are remarkably hardy and prolific, yielding almost a certain crop both North and 

 South. The variety ripens early ; the plants suffer but little from the depreda- 

 tions of bugs or worms ; and the fruit, with trifling care, may be preserved 

 throughout the year. It is also quite uniform in quality ; being seldom of the 

 coarse, stringy character so common to other varieties of this class. 



Grapes in Coxxecticut. — I have about one hundred and twenty-five 

 varieties of native grapes under cultivation, about one-half of which fruited the 

 past season. It must be a very bad location for grapes here, as no variety was 

 entirely free from mildew. The hardiest vines, thus far, are Concord, Hartford, 

 Miles, and Ives. These varieties were nearly free from mildew. I used sulphur 

 on the lona once, and could see no improvement ; and after that I let them all 

 take care of themselves. The rain soon washed off what sulphur I had put on. 

 Rogers's Hybrids, so far as I have tried the different numbers, are not satisfac- 

 tory. The hardiest with me is No. i. The fruit is high flavored, but has a rather 

 hard pulp, and ripens rather late. No. 2, fruit rotted. No. 3 is as early as 

 Hartford, and a pretty good grape, but does not improve after it is fairly colored. 

 No. 4 very fair, but so much like 19, that poor judges could not distinguish it. 

 No. 9 very good, distinct in flavor from No. 3. No. 15 rotted badly, and has for 

 three successive seasons ; and the vine mildews very badly. This variety is high 

 flavored : but the skin has an astringency that is very disagreeable ; and, *^o my 

 taste, it is the poorest grape of all the numbers. This last quality I find, tc some 

 extent, in all the numbers. No. 19 rotted some ; but, on the whole, I like it the 

 best of all the Rogers's numbers. The Sile.n mildewed badly, but has not fruited 

 yet. No. 28 something like 3, but not as good. No. 22 rotted, and other numbers 

 did no better ; and, for this locality, I could not recommend any of them. Concord 



